It’s that time of year for the 2021 reunion of the Descendants of Henry Clay Spencer and Amanda Jane Dunn from Burlington Township, Bradford County, Pennsylvania. The reunion report is a 12 MB PDF with about 200 pages of material describing … Continue reading →
Store credit in a small town did exist before the rise of plastic credit cards. Many small stores where I grew up offered a ‘club’ to help budget and save for future purchases.
Continue reading →I updated great-grandpa Jerry Shay’s work journal notes and transcribed all of the pages. It was a big effort but well worth it.
Continue reading →My Facebook family group pages provide a place for me to share stories about ancestors and relatives with my many cousins on a site they use every day. I was a little nervous about creating a page at first because … Continue reading →
Where was Michael Deely (or Daly) of Limerick, Ireland and father of James Martin Daly (1850-1927) born?
Continue reading →I created an ancestor table in Excel for quick reference but I can’t leave well-enough alone so it now has several tabs to help me look at my ancestors in different ways.
Continue reading →Well, I added SSL (HTTPS) to make Google happy. Or happier. It was only mildly traumatic to get the site working again. Now to write something useful.
Continue reading →In my post, The Really Old Man, I mentioned the Coleman Snook Farm as possible location for the Matthew Williams farm. I’m not sure where it is though. A cousin thinks the Coleman Snook Farm is on the present-day Sussex County … Continue reading →
Finding children for your ancestors – all of their children – is an important part of telling their story. I don't just look for my direct-line ancestor and ignore the rest; that approach doesn't explain why they made the decisions … Continue reading →
Detective Clarence Daly (1885-1926) is part of a collateral line but researching him was fun. A family story said there was a "Clarence Daly" who became a New York City policeman and died on the job. Oddly enough, that family … Continue reading →
